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Camille Satterwhite cried yesterday as she testified about the night her husband, Jason, was
shot, and she described finding him with a bullet through his left eye.

She had been sleeping with their infant daughter in another room on that day nearly 13 years
ago.

“I felt safe in my home until that night,” she told jurors in Franklin County Common Pleas
Court.

A bullet tore through the wall of their house at 1663 Zettler Rd. on the East Side about 5:30
a.m. on Sept. 19, 2001, striking 27-year-old Jason Satterwhite, who died a few days later in Grant
Medical Center.

Gregory L. Crockett, 32, who lived on Zettler at the time, is on trial in the courtroom of Judge
Charles Schneider on a charge of murder and two counts of involuntary manslaughter.

Crockett turned himself in within a week of the slaying after being implicated.

However, the prosecutor’s office lacked evidence to obtain an indictment until new witnesses
came forward, Assistant Prosecutor Nathan Yohey said.

The Columbus police cold-case squad reopened the investigation at the request of an officer who
had gone to high school with Satterwhite, and Crockett was charged in September.

Yohey said the witnesses will testify that they saw Crockett fire the shot that police believe
killed Satterwhite while Crockett was partying with friends in an apartment complex about 200 feet
down the street. Police homicide detectives determined that the bullet came from that complex by
calculating its trajectory.

The new witnesses are “motivated by their own crimes,” Crockett’s attorney, Lewis Dye, told the
jurors yesterday during his opening statement. He said all of the witnesses are seeking lesser
sentences in state or federal court by testifying against Crockett.

“You’ll see their stories don’t match up,” he told jurors.

One witness was arrested in January on a charge of printing fake money and could face several
years in federal prison.